In this episode I go into the basics of shadow work. If you’ve been intimated but interested in shadow work, this live is for you.
I discuss what is a shadow, where they come from, and why we continue to hold onto them. More importantly, I go into how we can heal our shadows and the beauty they hold when we no longer fear them.
Shadow work is the highest form of healing work. If we can learn how to transmute our darkness into light, imagine what we can do when given even more light.
🌿 Want to begin your shadow work journey? This is for you. Cardinal Shadow Work is a six month container where you will be intimately held as you deep dive into confronting your shadows and remaining your medicine. Your excuses will burn away. Your potential will be reached. This work is for those who are ready to be the light that this world needs. Link in b1o to join.
Don’t listen to this live if you aren’t ready to be called out on your excuses. In this live, I go DEEP into the shadows of
- overgiving
- “I don’t have enough time”
- “I have low energy”
- “I can’t achieve my dreams because of my mood”
And so much more.
Your excuses are validated by your shadows. Remember that you are not the problem, you are the solution.
🩸Sick of your shit and ready to release your excuses so you can live in your dreams? This is for you. Cardinal Shadow Work is a six month container where you will build accountability, discipline, and confidence in yourself to achieve whatever you put your mind to. waitlist is in the b1o.
We have been approaching spirituality wrong. Spirituality is not about self-help, ego, or money. It is about building a reverent practice to your ancestors, spirits, and medicine.
Mainstream spirituality does not speak about the important of being in right relation to the spirit world. Instead, it focuses on certifications, regalia, and status.
Spirituality will demand humility. It requires sacrifice, shadow work, and to know our medicines. ⚡️
So I ask you, what is your relationship to spirituality?
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Mainstream spirituality has a selfishness to it, viewing the spirit world as something to extract from and gain. It perpetuates the same colonial behaviors of extraction, disrespect, and consumption.
The traditional way is the opposite. It is about building reciprocity and relationship with the spirit world. Wisdom and healing is gained through proper communion instead of forceful domination and demanding. The spirit world merges with the physical and creates a deeper understanding of what it means to be a soul in form.
In this live, I cover what it means to walk in a traditional way, what’s required, and the urgency of reclaiming it. The way we are relating to the world right now is not sustainable. We must shift the way we are walking. It’s time to walk in a traditional way.
🩸Ready to walk in a traditional way and reclaim your medicine? This is for you. I’m holding a one day intensive September 28th on how to heal using a traditional teaching of the medicine wheel. You will learn how to reclaim ancestral medicine, heal colonial wounds, and begin to walk in a traditional way. Link in b1o ⚡️
We are given a map to navigate this world from a young age. Through family, school, and societal influences that map determines how we show up in this world.
That map is rooted in colonization.
That map does not ensure your survival nor your best interest.
We must challenge our perceptions, actions, mindsets, and ways of life. The current map many of us are following is doing more harm than good.
So, what map do we follow now?
Your ancestors left behind ancient maps to navigate this world. They knew times like this were coming. They left behind maps for those who are ready to align with a new way of life.
🩸 Ready to break free from the colonial map and reclaim your medicine map? This is for you. Click the link in b1o to join the waitlist.
There is a lot of unspoken struggles that come with working with Spirit. Your ancestors, spirits, and guides will continue to demand sacrifice in exchange for their teachings.
This isn’t out of punishment but rather a test of your dedication to preserving the sacredness of this work.
To know spirit intimately is to know spirit painfully.
It cannot be duplicated.
Learning your unique medicine is how we ensure that Spirit is being respected and held in a good way.
🩸 Ready to stand in integrity and align your healing in a good way? This is for you. Click the link in my bio to join the waitlist for Cardinal Shadow Work.
After 7+ years of helping individuals name their shadows, there are 3 reoccurring struggles that everyone struggles with in the beginning. Here they are.
1.) Overwhelm. When doing shadow work correctly, you will experience overwhelm. This is actually a good indicator. It confirms that your shadow is receiving attention and being exposed deeper. It allows it to become triggered which allows us to address it.
2.) Perfectionism. Individuals begin to fixate on understanding their shadow perfectly. This is a coping mechanism to alleviate the overwhelm. Instead of truly addressing the shadow, they replace action for obsession on correctly labeling and diagnosing.
3.) Forget to learn their medicine. Shadow work with medicine work is self-deprecation. Your medicines are what equipped you with the proper tools to address your shadows. Your unique shadows will be healed by your unique medicines.
Let’s take a moment to ask ourselves what it means to heal?
Western rhetoric has infiltrated into the healing space. It has brought its ways of consumerism and perfectionism. It has created a beast of believing you must constantly be striving towards perfection. This is not healing; it’s consumerism.
Healing is finding the balance between your shadows and medicines. It is learning how to walk in the gray space. We will always have parts of us to work on; we are human. Instead of obsessing on what we need to fix, let’s focus on balancing ourselves within medicine and shadow.
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In this live I go deep into understanding the importance and power of ancestral work. Many of us are being called to heal our bloodlines and confront the traumas that have been generationally passed down. In this discussion I breakdown how we do this work and the immense beauty that comes from liberating the ancestors.
🩸 Ready to reclaim and heal your ancestors? This is for you. Cardinal Shadow Work is a 6 month container dedicated to honoring your ancestors, breaking generational cycles, and reclaiming the medicine in your blood. Click the link below to join the waitlist.
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This conversation was one of my most vulnerable and raw ones within my process of how I do shadow work. Listen in to see if your spirit feels aligned to this way of healing.
Take a look inside what Cardinal Shadow Work entails and its process. Let me know in the comments which aspects you’d like me to discuss deeper.
The terrain of uncomfortability is a fertile ground for self-actualization. It is where we challenge the self imposed limitation we’ve created and begin to see parts of ourself that are powerful, profound, and beautiful.
In this conversation I dive deep into the importance of getting uncomfortable and how shadow work is a powerful tool for expanding ourselves. It is the tool we use to reap the medicine.
🩸Ready to truly see yourself in its fullness? This is for you. Cardinal Shadow Work is now open. DM or click the link in my b10 to join the waitlist.
In this conversation, we discussed the tactics of colonization and how to liberate ourselves from the colonial structures that keep us caged.
Traditional shadow work, and a brief synopsis, is using the ancestral and indigenous framework of the medicine wheel to confront our shadows and learn our medicines. By inherently using the medicine wheel, we are innately confronting the colonial shadow.
In this live, I dive deep into how colonization works, ripples through the medicine wheel, and how we bring forward medicine during these testing times.
Shadow work is no longer a “nice to have” but an essential tool for navigating this life.
🩸 Ready to confront your shadows and dismantle the colonial construct? This is for you. Cardinal Shadow Work is a 6 month container where we will deep dive into shadow teachings, medicine teachings, and bringing forward the power of your ancestors. As the systems burn, our medicine rises. Limited spots.
I get asked a lot “how do I know if I am ready to do shadow work?” In this conversation, we take a deep dive into understanding what’s required of you in order to confront your shadows.
It ultimately boils down to three things:
1.) Accountability - Your ability to recognize AND take action to change that behavior. Awareness without action is merely manipulation.
2.) Reverence - Seeing the sacredness in all things and remaining humble during this journey.
3.) Courage - Your willingness to confront your shadows and do the hard things even in the face of fear, doubt, and the unknown.
🩸 If you’re truly ready to confront your shadows and learn your medicines, this is for you. Click the link in my b1o to join the waitlist. Limited spots.
In this live we have a deep discussion (honestly a workshop) on understanding the shadow of doubt and how it uniquely shows up for you.
Doubt is defined as a form of manipulation that you shadow uses to keep you stagnant. It blurs the lines between safety and stagnation.
Through understanding your shadow of doubt deeper, you will see how to liberate yourself from it.
This life provides tools on how to identify your unique shadow of doubt and the medicine needed to heal it.
🩸Ready to learn traditional shadow work and take these teachings even deeper? This is for you. Click the link in my b1o to join the waitlist to Cardinal Shadow Work.
You were given the spirits and medicines you hold because these spirits hold the answers and lessons that you are meant to learn.
This is why knowing your medicines is so profound. It’s not only your spiritual gifts but also the life lessons you’re meant to learn and help you navigate them.
It teaches you how to walk in this world.
🩸 If you’re ready to learn your spirits and finally embody the life lessons you are meant to live, this is for you. Click the link in my b1o to join the waitlist for Cardinal Shadow Work where you will learn the unique medicines you hold + how to walk with them.
Sacred titles of medicine woman, shaman, and healer CANNOT be bought. These are titles that are only truly understood through initiation and walking the path of medicine.
Sacred titles ≠ holding sacred knowledge. Just because you hold the title doesn’t mean you hold the teachings.
Titles are given from your community. They are earned and never self-proclaimed.
You cannot duplicate the essence of a medicine woman / healer. It is something that is stitched into your Spirit from birth. It is a way of life that is not chosen but assigned.
Much more discussed in the video…
Your potential in this life is blocked by your shadows.
When you acknowledge your shadows, you see the blockages that stop you from living your fullest expression.
Your shadows keep you stagnant. Repressed. Repeating harmful cycles.
When you learn your shadows, you liberate yourself from their control.
🩸Tired of being stuck in your shadow? Ready to reclaim your medicine and power? This is for you. Cardinal Shadow Work is a 6 month container where you will dive deep into understanding your shadows. You’ll see their entirety. & through seeing your shadows you will begin to live in your medicine. Your potential. Your purpose. Click the link in my b1o to join the waitlist.
In this live I discuss how to navigate the season of the Teen when it comes to your spiritual maturity.
First, identify if your spiritual maturity is within the teen. A quick test to see this is have you heard / familiar with these words?
Reiki. Breathwork. Indigenous knowledge. Tarot. Energy work.
If the answer is yes, you’re most likely in the Teen phase. If not, go check out my other video Part 1: Spiritual Maturity - Infant | Beginner to Spirituality
In modern times, we lack the rites of passage our ancestors had that developed our spirits’ maturity as our bodies developed. Many of us are physical adults in age but not in spiritual maturity.
This is what this live is all about. How to mature your spirit properly, what to focus on, what to stay cautious of, and so much more.
🩸Ready to learn your unique medicine and develop spiritual maturity? This is for you. Click the link in my b1o to join the waitlist to Cardinal Shadow Work, a 6 month deep dive into understanding your shadows and unique medicine.
The battle with our shadows often begin in our Minds. The reason being is the mind is in a constant active state of consuming, thinking, filtering, and processing. There is a lot happening in our Mind which makes it easier for our shadows to slip by. It’s like a busy marketplace. It’s easier to steal with more distractions.
Part of healing your shadows is understanding their language. It’s learning how they uniquely speak to you. When you identify their language, you begin to corner them. This is where the work begins.
🩸 Ready to learn the language of your shadows? Tired of surface level healing? This is for you. Click the link in my b1o to join the waitlist for Cardinal Shadow Work.
In this live I go deep into understanding what true shadow work will trigger within you. This work isn’t meant to be comfortable, it’s meant to challenge you to push through the growing pains so you can reach higher, stronger, and powerful heights.
Holding medicine in a good way isn’t taught nowadays. Modalities are marketed without understanding the responsibility required to do them in a good way. Shadow work is what implements that’s integrity and responsibility within us.